Main
Vinita Vader
Research statement
I am currently a PhD student in Personality Psychology at University of Oregon. The theoretical premise for my research is that the study of Culture underlies the study of Personality and Values. I am interested in using machine learning techniques to build psychological mappings of people across societies and design a quantifiable model of culture. Psychometrics, building culture specific ( emic ) surveys, and applying quantitative methods to design methods for psychological data sets.
Relevant experince
Doctoral Researcher
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
2019 - Current
- MS thesis: High Dimensionality structure of English Language Type-nouns
- Educational Data Science Specialization: Projects designed and executed include World Value Survey,Tutorial on functional programming, Hate Speech detection
- Research
- “Lexical study of Personality and Values of Hindi Language speakers” - Developing a comprehensive dictionary of personality and value relevant words in Hindi and developing a measure for Hindi speakers
- “High Dimensionality structure of Persian Language Adjectives” - Finding the most robust model for adjective structure in Persian language
- “Culture relevant groupings using Values and Personality” (Dissertation topic) - Developing a method to find cultural groups in a society based on thinking patterns. This project focuses on high dimensionality algorithms across cluster analysis, network analysis and PCA to understand the groups that can be formed
- Teaching fellow
- Undergraduate courses: Research Methods (Sole instructor), Statistics (Lab instructor), Personality (Teaching assistant), Cultural Psychology (Teaching assistant)
- Graduate courses: Statistics PSY 611 (Lab instructor)
- R Bootcamp assistant (Summer 2021)
Teaching experience
University of Mumbai
Mumbai, India
2016 - 2018
- Graduate courses: Statistics for Psychology, Dissertation Guide, Psychological Testing and Psychometrics Practicals
- Undergraduate courses: Social Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Industrial Psychology, Experimental Psychology (Practicum and theory)
Gradute level Researcher
M.A. in Applied Psychology
Mumbai, India
2014 - 2016
- Thesis: Working Memory Capacity in Caregivers of Alcoholics
- Clinial intern - Mental status examinations; Assessments - MMPI, MCMI, Kamat- Binet Test of Intelligence, VSMS, Seguin-Form Board, Children Apperception Test, Rorschach Ink Blot Test; Diagnosis (DSM-5, ICD 10)
Other Publications and Posters (selected)
Factors affecting Academic Achievement in students : An empirical study - understanding the interaction between creativity, intelligence and academic achievement
Journal of Education and Planning. 2019; DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.32264.88328
N/A
2019
Vader, Purohit, and Pandit.
What Lies at the Center of Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale? Network Analysis and Latent Structure of Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale for Indian Data
Bombay Psychologist. 2019.
N/A
2019
Belhekar, Vader, Korgaonkar, and Dattakavi
Note on Iconic Sensory Memory and Sensory Memory
for Marathi encyclopedia on Psychology Marathi Vishwakosh
N/A
2020
Vader
Acculturation and Personality among Indian students using the NEO-PI-3
Poster for 2020 American Psychological Association
USA
2019
Heffern, Vader, Belhekar, Mellott
Personality Structure in Marathi and English for Maharashtrians: A Psycholexical Investigation
Paper presentation at Society for Cross Cultural Research Conference (SCCR) 2020
Seattle, USA
2020
Belhekar and Vader
MUFFI 2 – A culture sensitive measure of personality based on the Indian context
Poster presentation at Society for Cross Cultural Research Conference (SCCR) 2020
Seattle, USA
2020
Vader and Belhekar
The Five-Factor Model and Cultural dimensions in the Indian Context
Poster presentation American Psychological Association (2019)
USA
2019
Heffern, Vader, Belhekar, Mellott
Using Factor analysis and Network analysis to delineate Personality Structure among Indian College Students
Poster presentation American Psychological Association (2018)
USA
2018
Heffern, Vader, Belhekar, Mellott